SDI Search & Recovery Diver
Enhance your diving skills with our practical Search and Recovery certification course. This program helps certified divers develop useful underwater search techniques and safe recovery procedures. Whether you're interested in helping locate lost items or simply want to expand your diving capabilities, you'll learn valuable skills in navigation, search patterns, and proper recovery methods.
$250.00
Availability: In Stock
Who this course is for:
- The certified diver looking for more information to maximize the use of search and recovery for scuba diving
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, SDI Junior Open Water Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Search and Recovery Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Navigation
- Compass use
- Estimating distances
- Natural navigation
- Limited visibility diving
- Factors affecting visibility
- Hazards of limited visibility
- Techniques of diving
- Search techniques
- Shotgun
- Circular search
- Grid search SDI Instructor Manual
- Current (overlap) search
- Signals for search diving
- Salvage techniques
- Depth considerations
- Lift bags
- Lifting drums
- Necessary qualities of lifting devices
- Knots and rigging
- Fill techniques
- Mud/silt suction considerations
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Review compass techniques
- Review search techniques
- Practice and perform different search patterns
- Review lifting techniques
- Recover an object from depth
- Salvage and recovery of an object with a water weight of between 11 and 33 kg/25 and 75 lbs
- Simulate scuba emergency using a minimum of 2 searching techniques
- Log dives
